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Version 42.1: Life, the universe and everything. Linux distributions need to walk a fine line. On the one hand users want rock-solid foundations; this is why conservative distros like Debian have long ruled the server. But on the other hand, you want the most up-to-date apps on your desktop, hence the popularity of Ubuntu (rather than Debian) for laptops and PCs.…

Can one be "sold" on open source? Adelle Frank makes a case for that, claiming that she has not one but two favorite Linux distributions: Xubuntu and Lubuntu. She even used the latter to convert a family member from Windows XP, which should come as no surprise from someone who has CyanogenMod on her phone.

How do you defend yourself against the unknown? That is crux of the zero-day vulnerability: a software vulnerability that, by definition, is unknown by the user of the software and often its developer as well.

Egle Sigler, Kavit Munshi, and Carol Barrett are organizers and active members of OpenStack's Diversity Working Group. The OpenStack Foundation has a deep commitment to fostering the diversity and inclusivity of the OpenStack community. The foundation's Board of Directors created the group to formulate, deliver, and monitor programs to help increase the diversity of the community.

Red Hat commits even more resources to the cloud by buying DevOps power Ansible for $150 million.

Historical background on OpenBSD, the open source operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution, or BSD. OpenBSD turns 20 this week and just issued a new release, version 5.8.

Red Hat partners with Black Duck to provide Deep Container Inspection in an effort to secure containers.

Valve is moving much quicker now with the SteamOS updates, and it looks like its makers are trying to push fixes and improvements ahead of the November 10 launch for the Steam Machines.

In today's open source roundup: HP's new Chromebook 14 will use an Intel processor. Plus: DistroWatch reviews Linux Lite 2.6. And a review of the Nexus 6P phone.

Having lived and breathed computers and electronics since I first helped my dad run a card sorter at work as a child, I've never been afraid to try new things (or to break them). I've run every release of Windows except Vista over the years, but I had real fun with things like my Commodore Amiga 1000, or when I ran OS/2 Warp on my 386. My first Linux experience was with Red Hat 5 on a web server at work. Since I grew up with things like TRS-DOS and Commodore BASIC, I felt right at home. read more

The evolution of technology and new advances in the field of entertainment have brought us small and low priced computer systems with low power consumption like the Raspberry Pi that are perfectly suited for a home media center. In this tutorial, I will install the OSMC Media Center software on a card Raspberry Pi 2.

Adobe has patched a critical zero-day security flaw in Flash, which the company said was being used to launch "limited, targeted attacks." The emergency patch, which also fixed two other vulnerabilities, landed on Friday, sooner than the company's forecast of some time this week.

Aaeon launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a Raspberry Pi form-factor “Up” SBC, that runs Linux and Android on a quad-core, 1.84GHz, Intel Atom x5 SoC.

PHP is one of the most widely used programming languages for building web applications. Sometimes, when building complex web applications, the developers may found it difficult to manage all the application dependencies as well as the required libraries for the same application. However, PHP will not be such widely used if there is not an appropriate solution for this problem.

Imagination Technologies is announcing that a new MIPS-based development board for IoT is in the works.

The UK Government is looking to shed its dependency on proprietary software and entered into a new commercial deal with an open source software company Collabora Productivity that adapts LibreOffice for the use in enterprise environments.

In the latest stable KDE release, you go about this task a number of ways, but the best way is to right click on the desktop and click on “default desktop settings.” From there you are offered an extremely slick GUI to choose a desktop picture of your liking. But wait, there are more options available here, let’s take a look.

The time has come to learn some information about the next major release, GNOME 3.20.

LXer Feature Update: 20-Oct-2015

The original article was dedicated, with thanks, to Gus3. Without his suggestion it never would have been written. Like the original article, I stress the following update text involves Linux only obliquely......but I hope all my friends here on LXer will find it interesting, and perhaps, useful.

Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf," the latest open source Linux OS from Canonical, features updates to the Linux kernel, Unity interface, LibreOffice and more.